Advancing digital rights in Europe
What we do
DFF funds three types of activities: litigation, pre-litigation, and post-litigation. We accept grant applications through regular calls for applications, which are announced on our grants page.
DFF facilitates events and develops resources to support organisations and individuals in pursuing litigation to advance digital rights.
Our Grantmaking Case Studies
Foxglove, with the Independent Publishers Alliance, is pushing UK and European competition regulators to intervene and stop Google from using AI tools to scrape the work of independent news reporters...
SLAPP Watch Coalition are involved in litigation to challenge blocking orders on a Kurdish-language news portal. The are aiming for a Constitutional Court or European Court of Human Rights ruling...
Urgence Homophobie is preparing strategic litigation to challenge systematic violations of trans refugees’ digital identity rights in France. According to Urgence Homophobie, in a context of full administrative digitalisation creating...
Coalition Margins are preparing a strategic legal response to the growing use of anonymous Facebook pages to orchestrate gender-based violence, hate speech, and coordinated attacks on civic activists in North...
Mousse are challenging the use of online forms requiring people to indicate whether they consider themselves to be ‘Mr’ or ‘Ms’, which allow public and private bodies to collect data...
Partners Serbia will implement a litigation and advocacy project that puts Serbia, and the Western Balkans, on a rights-centred path toward the EU Digital Single Market (DSM). In June 2024...
According to Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI), in Lithuania in 2019, telecommunications companies were legally required to collect and store users’ personal communications data. This included information about who sent...
5Rights is pressing for investigatory action against a widely-used American app popular among young children worldwide, citing significant safety concerns including inadequate protection of minors from bad actors, high likelihood...
In 2024, PILP took litigation challenging automated decision making through the use of an algorithm by banks in the Netherlands, resulting in discrimination against people with “exotic” sounding names, whose...
With the support of the 5Rights Foundation, Good Law Project made a submission in May 2025 to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) against Apple and Google app stores...
Our Community work
DFF develops resources, organises convenings, meetings and workshops that help to improve the strategic litigation skills of the community of organisations and individuals working on digital rights in Europe.
Our aim is to increase awareness of the potential of the EU Charter of fundamental rights in the defence and protection of digital rights, to conduct capacity building, and to strengthen the knowledge and ability of different stakeholders in enforcing digital rights using strategic litigation.
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6 Insights from the AI Hub’s First 6 Months
As we recognise the Human Rights Day, it’s fitting to reflect on DFF’s contribution to human rights protection in the first six months of our first-of-its-kind AI and Digital Infrastructure Strategic Litigation (AI Hub). Hub Recap The AI Hub is
Rising Up for Democracy: Introducing Our Digital Democracy Strategic Litigation Hub
Following the launch of our first Strategic Litigation Hub focusing on AI and Digital Infrastructure in June 2025, we are excited to announce the launch of our new Strategic Litigation Hub focusing on Digital Democracy. An overview of our Strategic Litigation
Digital Freedom Fund – Winter 2025/2026 update on new grants
In November 2025, we decided on our latest group of grant recipients, approving 13 grants worth EUR 370,000 supporting litigation to advance digital rights in Europe. We’ve passed another major milestone: EUR 5 million! That is EUR 5 million spread